Title | Women in the Soviet Union |
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Publisher | Workers Library Publishers |
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Date | 1929 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 67 pages: illustrations; 18 cm |
Original Item Location | HQ1662.W6 1929 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304548~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | In Copyright: This item is protected by copyright. Copyright to this resource is held by the creator or current rights holder, and the resource is provided here for educational purposes. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without permission of the copyright owner. Users assume full responsibility for any infringement of copyright or related rights. |
File Name | index.cpd |
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Transcript | 62 WOMEN IN THE ill' and action. We ourselves are responsible for our personal efforts, for the strength, the passion, the resoluteness and will we put into the work for our objects. We must not appeal to our powerlessness as creatures of environment. That idea should never be the excuse for cowardice and laziness. Our conviction and will are also forces moulding our life and action. We women do not want to be accused of cowardice and idleness in the historical process of mankind's development. Our duty at the present is to follow the example given by the ancient German women. The historians of Rome tell us that the old German people, driven by frightful hunger, invaded the fields of France and Italy. When they came into conflict with the Roman troops it was the women who drove the retreating men back into the fight and themselves fought to the very last, choosing death rather than being taken prisoner. Let us look around us ! Are there not millions and millions, in every capitalist country, marching towards the new land, millions driven by hunger— and not only physical hunger, but the still more painful hunger of the heart ? And in their march they came into conflict with all the forces of bourgeois society, forces trying to prevent them from entering into the fruitful fields of socialism, of communism. Comrades ! Women of all countries ! Let us follow their glorious example. It is an example set for us by our sisters in the Soviet Union. Let us stand first in the ranks of those fighting to defend Soviet Russia in its work of socialist construction. And if the men are sometimes weak, if they should |